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Cynicism was a transgressive tradition. The life of Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky shows us what a modern revival might look like.

Eve Garrard is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester and author of Forgiveness (with David McNaughton) published by Acumen ...

Paul Mason on how the rise of information technology is transforming the way we think about human character.

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We have already invented a way for the devout and the godless to get along in public, says Paul Kelly. We just have to believe in it ...

Aliens, Martians, extraterrestrials – how do we find out whether there’s life on other planets? Paul Davies has a formula ...

That’s the philosophy of a unique Muslim sect. Richard Dowden traces its spread across the diaspora ...

Sultan Barakat is the founding director of the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit at the University of York. He has edited a collection of essays entitled Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq ...

Alice Bell is co-director of the climate charity Possible and author of Can We Save the Planet? (Thames and Hudson, 2020). Her book on the history of the climate crisis, Our Biggest Experiment, will ...

What do the Beatles, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, Patricia Arquette and Michael Keaton have in common, asks Michael Shermer ...

Salman Rushdie's new novel more than justifies the hype, says Candy Clarke ...